Triple

T446336
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gibbons v. Ogden E7029 entity
Predicate plaintiff P660 FINISHED
Object Thomas Gibbons
Thomas Gibbons was a 19th-century American steamboat operator best known as the successful plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which expanded federal power over interstate commerce.
E83967 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Thomas Gibbons | Statement: [Gibbons v. Ogden, plaintiff, Thomas Gibbons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Gibbons
Context triple: [Gibbons v. Ogden, plaintiff, Thomas Gibbons]
  • A. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • B. William Gibbons
    William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
  • C. Samuel Blodgett
    Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
  • D. Newton Baker
    Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
  • E. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Thomas Gibbons
Triple: [Gibbons v. Ogden, plaintiff, Thomas Gibbons]
Generated description
Thomas Gibbons was a 19th-century American steamboat operator best known as the successful plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which expanded federal power over interstate commerce.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Gibbons
Target entity description: Thomas Gibbons was a 19th-century American steamboat operator best known as the successful plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which expanded federal power over interstate commerce.
  • A. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • B. William Gibbons
    William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
  • C. Samuel Blodgett
    Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
  • D. Newton Baker
    Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
  • E. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a2e7e4676c81909ea0dbdecac0687c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef62c7a88190851fcd57658b4102 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5dc8df9708190976967ad4e45a597 completed March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5de11a0ac81909247a98bbc317cf7 completed March 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5febeeb908190a42d468edfe985ef completed March 2, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.